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Home- December 20, 2024
Bitter Moon Blu-ray Movie
Via Vision Entertainment | 1992 | 140 min | Rated ACB: R18+ | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Nigel Dobson is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona. On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar, in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi.
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Dark humor / Erotic
Prey for Rock & Roll Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2003 | 104 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A journey of rock & roll legends to be... Jacki, Tracy, Faith and Sally are four struggling L.A. rockers who, after years of playing the Sunset Strip, are still waiting for their big break. Then they finally get the call. With the possibility of a record contract on the table, they quickly learn the price of fame and discover the hard truth about sex, drugs, and rock & roll.
Drama / Music
The Mean One Blu-ray Movie
Cineverse | 2022 | 93 min | Unrated | Dec 17, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
In a sleepy mountain town, a woman has her parents murdered and her Christmas stolen by a blood thirsty green figure in a red Santa suit. But when the ravenous creature begins to terrorize the town and threatens to ruin the holiday, she decides to trap and kill the monster.
Horror / Holiday
The Gingerdead Man Blu-ray Movie
Full Moon Features | 2005 | 70 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
Depending on one's point of view, Gary Busey either sinks or rises to new levels of crazed weirdness in this low-budget, gore-drenched Z-movie. Busey plays deranged murderer Millard Findlemeyer, who's sent to the electric chair by brave witness Sara Leigh after he murders her family. But his creepy, vengeful mother mixes his ashes into some homemade gingerbread mix, and when the mix winds up at the Leigh bakery, all it takes is a few drops of blood to trigger an ancient curse and bring Millard's soul to life in the form of an evil, homicidal pastry. Bloodshed ensues as Sara and her friends are forced to fight for their lives against this walking, talking, and stabbing (but oddly kind of adorable) gingerbread man.
Comedy / Horror
Bones and All 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 2022 | 130 min | Rated R | Nov 26, 2024 | Dr. Stephen Larson
The story follows 16-year-old Maren Yearly on a cross-country as she searches through dark, unseen corners of America to find a father she's never met in an attempt to understand why she has killed a series of friends.
Drama / Horror / Romance
Legends of the Fall 4K Blu-ray Movie
30th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1994 | 133 min | Rated R | Dec 03, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
Tiring of the brutality of cavalry life, Colonel William Ludlow starts a new life with his family in the majestic mountains of Montana. While growing up, his three sons are inseparable, but as young men, passion, the butchery of WWI and personal tragedy intervene in their lives and shake the foundations of their family.
Drama / Romance / War / Western / Melodrama / Epic / Period
Mr. Lucky Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1943 | 100 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2024 | Randy Miller III
A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.
Comedy / Romance
The Miracle Woman Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1931 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
Sister Fallon, a young woman with a gift for religious oratory, gains fame through the efforts of an unsavory promoter who stages phony "faith healings" during her services. At first seduced by the money, she soon grows weary of the deception and tries to escape the racket, a situation that becomes a genuine trial by fire. Loosely inspired by the famous California evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and Sinclair Lewis's novel ELMER GANTRY, THE MIRACLE WOMAN was one of Capra's few box office failures for Columbia Pictures, but it remains a fascinating expose of religious charlatans and phony faith healers.
Drama / Romance
Forbidden Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1932 | 85 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
On an ocean voyage, Lulu, a thrill-seeking, small-town librarian, enters into a carefree affair with Bob Grover, a lawyer with major political ambitions. Even though she learns that Grover has an invalid wife and will never leave her, Lulu continues to carry on their affair in private, despite the fact that she now has an illegitimate child to consider. When a newspaper editor threatens to expose the couple publicly, tragedy ensues. Capra's attempt to create a popular "women's picture" in the style of a Fannie Hurst soap opera like BACK STREET is made credible by the strong performances of Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou and Ralph Bellamy.
Drama / Romance
- December 19, 2024
Below Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2002 | 105 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In 1943, the crew of the U.S.S. Tiger Shark, an American submarine in the Atlantic, rescues three survivors of a British hospital ship that came under German attack. One of the survivors, a nurse, raises tensions among the all-male crew from the moment she steps aboard. Commanding Officer Lieutenant Brice does his best to keep the unruly crew in line, but after suffering damage from a barrage of Nazi depth charges a series of increasingly spooky occurrences begin to rattle everybody aboard.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / War / Supernatural
Below 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 2002 | 105 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In 1943, the crew of the U.S.S. Tiger Shark, an American submarine in the Atlantic, rescues three survivors of a British hospital ship that came under German attack. One of the survivors, a nurse, raises tensions among the all-male crew from the moment she steps aboard. Commanding Officer Lieutenant Brice does his best to keep the unruly crew in line, but after suffering damage from a barrage of Nazi depth charges a series of increasingly spooky occurrences begin to rattle everybody aboard.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / War / Supernatural
Black Lizard Blu-ray Movie
Hak sik yik / Hei xi yi / 黑蜥蜴
Shout Factory | 1981 | 86 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A young master swordsman coming back from two years of traveling encounters strange omens portending the death of his fiancée. He begins to investigate, with help from the local constable, to slowly reveal an elaborate scheme.
Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
Transformers One 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2024 | 104 min | Rated PG | Dec 17, 2024 | Martin Liebman
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Legend of the Fox Blu-ray Movie
Fei hu wai zhuan / 飛狐外傳
Shout Factory | 1980 | 128 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Chin Siu Ho plays a young man who believes himself to be an orphan. Until one rainy night when he and three different men find themselves taking shelter from the storm in the same place.
Action / Drama / Foreign
ZAZ: The Collection! 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1980-1988 | 3 Movies | 263 min | Rated PG | Nov 19, 2024 | Martin Liebman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Romance
Airplane! 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1980 | 88 min | Rated PG | Dec 09, 2025 | Martin Liebman
An ex-fighter pilot must take the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning. Surely you can't be serious?
Comedy / Romance
Top Secret! 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1984 | 90 min | Rated PG | Dec 09, 2025 | Martin Liebman
Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.
Action / Comedy
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Paramount Pictures | 1988 | 84 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Incompetent cop Frank Drebin has to foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Comedy / Crime
Two Champions of Shaolin Blu-ray Movie
Shao Lin yu Wu Dang / 少林與武當
Shout Factory | 1980 | 106 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
The Wu Tang chief sends out his men, each of whom is given a symbol so they can recognize each other. The largest is given to Lee, whom the others are to obey.
Action / Foreign
Shaolin Abbot Blu-ray Movie
A Slice of Death / Shao Lin ying xiong bang / 少林英雄榜
Shout Factory | 1979 | 83 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Martial arts epic of the great Chih Shim, the monk who saved the Southern Shaolin Temple
Action / Adventure / Martial arts / Foreign